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4/22/1658, Nicolas received a concession on the coast of Notre Dame des Anges of 2 arpents frontage by 30 deep, on the riviere St Charles. Nicolas was required to build a home the 1st year, with a rent of 60 sols.

4/18/1661, Nicolas sold his property, now with a house, barn and stable, to Eustache Lambert for 500 livres tournois.

7/25/1661, Nicolas acquired 3 arpents frontage by 24 deep on Ile de Orleans [parish of St Pierre, later Ste. Famille] from Nicloas Deblois for 80 livres. The rents and cens were the same as his 1st property. His neighbor was Jacques Lehoux. Nicolas had the rights to already planted crops, but there was no house on the property.

10/31/1663, Nicolas appeared before the Soverign Council seeking payment for a pig killed by Claude Charland about 6 weeks earlier. Nicolas was fined 10 livres for threatening Claude as they were leaving the court.

Spring, 1664, Amerindian Robert Hache, attacked and raped Marthe. Robert was captured and jailed, but later escaped.

3/6/1673, an inventory of Nicolas was completed. Nicolas family’s home had burned; irons, dishes, blankets, … “old chest with key in which is found the breviary printed in French and Latin” and “another small book entitled ‘Les rechutes du peche apres la penitence.’ [Relapses after the penance of sin]” … barrels of lard in the cellar, wheat and peas in the barn, flour in an old house at the bottom of the slope, … total value: 150 livres. Livestock: 2 oxen, 3 cows, 1 heifer, value: 303 livres. 7.5 arpents of land under cultivation. Debts: 61 livres.